New and extended definitions of landscape constitute an opportunity to
take into account lost or modified cultural landscapes, and based on their
history and features (as past places and spaces) to react in order to preserve
and to protect human, natural, economical and cultural values attested by their
existence.

Present neglecting of cultural landscapes prevents the modern society
population to comprehend the importance of places’ identity and the cultural
meaning that the urban framework carries within, impeding to see and learn the
narrative process of urban perception and evolution that they express during
the centuries.

Various digital methods/ techniques are used in present for landscape
assessment, analyze, forecast and foreseen. Also, an important part of research
of lost cultural landscapes history, evolution and features is based on use of digital
methods. Main digital methods used for landscape assessment are: GIS analysis, different
indicators and data series comparisons, photographic assessment of evolution, data
text collections analysis, aerial photo evolution and interpretation, landscape
reconstruction- virtual landscape.

Some of these digital methods used in order to describe landscape capture
also features that can not be quantified, referring at sensitive/ sensorial
landscape and related also to local perception of landscape (sound, smell,
textures, colors and light). The presentation aims to identify which are the
composing elements which are influenced by contextual transformation and have potential
to be captured and described by digital methods.